The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Scotland region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 54 41 30
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -11
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 74 75 107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.926% 2.807% 3.820%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.226% 4.404% 5.790%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 42 46
Average daily rate £325 £328 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% -18.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £251 £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £425 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
Average hourly rate £19.75 £14.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.07% -3.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.25 £22.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+12.22% -2.17%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1751 1703 1848
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 69.24% 63.74% 65.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 825 976
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 62 43
Average hourly rate £18.08 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.70% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.20 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
User Acceptance Testing
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User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Scotland User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Scotland region.

Scotland User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Scotland User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Scotland region.

Scotland User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Edinburgh +5 42 £338 -1.81% 3
Glasgow -25 12 £290 -12.45% 2
Stirling +3 9 £250 -39.39%
Aberdeen +7 3 £300 +33.33% 4
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User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing User Acceptance Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Acceptance Testing.

1 68 (52.31%) Finance
2 31 (23.85%) Banking
3 26 (20.00%) SQL
4 23 (17.69%) HP Quality Center
5 21 (16.15%) ISEB
6 18 (13.85%) Test Scripting
7 16 (12.31%) System Testing
8 14 (10.77%) Oracle
8 14 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (10.00%) Business Analysis
10 11 (8.462%) ISTQB
10 11 (8.462%) Test Management
10 11 (8.462%) Java
11 10 (7.692%) Test Strategy
11 10 (7.692%) Data Analysis
11 10 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
12 9 (6.923%) Retail
12 9 (6.923%) Spring
12 9 (6.923%) Investment Banking
12 9 (6.923%) UNIX
13 8 (6.154%) UML
13 8 (6.154%) SAP
13 8 (6.154%) Sybase
13 8 (6.154%) RDBMS
13 8 (6.154%) Microsoft
13 8 (6.154%) HP
13 8 (6.154%) ETL
13 8 (6.154%) Use Case
14 7 (5.385%) Validation
14 7 (5.385%) Migration

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing User Acceptance Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (6.923%) Spring
2 6 (4.615%) JMS
2 6 (4.615%) XML
3 4 (3.077%) J2SE
3 4 (3.077%) SOAP
3 4 (3.077%) Web Services
4 2 (1.538%) HTML
4 2 (1.538%) J2EE
4 2 (1.538%) EJB
4 2 (1.538%) CSS
4 2 (1.538%) JDBC
4 2 (1.538%) JSP
4 2 (1.538%) Servlets
4 2 (1.538%) XML Messaging
4 2 (1.538%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.538%) TopLink
4 2 (1.538%) JSF
4 2 (1.538%) XMLBeans
4 2 (1.538%) Java EE
4 2 (1.538%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 6 (4.615%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.308%) SAS
3 2 (1.538%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.769%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.769%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (4.615%) MS Excel
2 5 (3.846%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.846%) MS PowerPoint
2 5 (3.846%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.077%) SAP HR
2 3 (2.308%) SAP MM
2 3 (2.308%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.308%) SAP CO
2 3 (2.308%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 3 (2.308%) SAP SCM
3 2 (1.538%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.538%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.769%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.769%) MultiFonds
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.538%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.154%) RDBMS
2 5 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.077%) DB2
4 3 (2.308%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.308%) TOAD
5 2 (1.538%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.538%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.538%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 2 (1.538%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.769%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.769%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.769%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.769%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.769%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.769%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.769%) SAP BI
6 1 (0.769%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 6 (4.615%) JUnit
2 4 (3.077%) Maven
3 3 (2.308%) TestDirector
4 2 (1.538%) JIRA
4 2 (1.538%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.769%) MSI
5 1 (0.769%) CruiseControl
5 1 (0.769%) PVCS
5 1 (0.769%) ClearCase
General
1 68 (52.31%) Finance
2 31 (23.85%) Banking
3 9 (6.923%) Retail
3 9 (6.923%) Investment Banking
4 7 (5.385%) Back Office
5 6 (4.615%) Retail Banking
6 5 (3.846%) Front Office
7 3 (2.308%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.538%) Billing
9 1 (0.769%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.769%) Publishing
9 1 (0.769%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 69 (53.08%) Analyst
2 36 (27.69%) Test Analyst
3 24 (18.46%) Business Analyst
4 14 (10.77%) Developer
5 8 (6.154%) Test Manager
5 8 (6.154%) Consultant
5 8 (6.154%) Test Leader
6 7 (5.385%) Java Developer
7 6 (4.615%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (4.615%) UAT Analyst
7 6 (4.615%) UAT Test Analyst
8 5 (3.846%) Team Leader
8 5 (3.846%) Technical Business Analyst
8 5 (3.846%) Data Analyst
8 5 (3.846%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (3.846%) Support Analyst
8 5 (3.846%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.077%) Tester
9 4 (3.077%) Support Team Leader
9 4 (3.077%) SAP Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.077%) Derivative
1 4 (3.077%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (3.077%) Mathematics
1 4 (3.077%) Computer Science
1 4 (3.077%) Credit Risk
2 3 (2.308%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.538%) Reference Data
3 2 (1.538%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.538%) Visualisation
3 2 (1.538%) Ergonomics
3 2 (1.538%) N-Tier
3 2 (1.538%) W3C
3 2 (1.538%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.769%) PMI
4 1 (0.769%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.769%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.769%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.923%) UNIX
2 7 (5.385%) Linux
3 5 (3.846%) Windows
4 1 (0.769%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.769%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (13.85%) Test Scripting
2 16 (12.31%) System Testing
3 14 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 11 (8.462%) Test Management
6 10 (7.692%) Test Strategy
6 10 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (7.692%) Data Analysis
7 8 (6.154%) UML
7 8 (6.154%) ETL
7 8 (6.154%) Use Case
8 7 (5.385%) Data Modelling
8 7 (5.385%) Workflow
8 7 (5.385%) Validation
8 7 (5.385%) Migration
9 6 (4.615%) Project Planning
9 6 (4.615%) Unit Testing
10 5 (3.846%) Software Testing
10 5 (3.846%) ITIL
11 4 (3.077%) OO
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.00%) SQL
2 11 (8.462%) Java
3 6 (4.615%) Scala
4 3 (2.308%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.538%) Jython
5 2 (1.538%) Korn
5 2 (1.538%) VBA
5 2 (1.538%) Python
5 2 (1.538%) Perl
5 2 (1.538%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.538%) C#
5 2 (1.538%) Bash shell
6 1 (0.769%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (16.15%) ISEB
2 11 (8.462%) ISTQB
3 5 (3.846%) Degree
4 3 (2.308%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (0.769%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.077%) MiFID
1 4 (3.077%) QA
2 2 (1.538%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.538%) WCAG
3 1 (0.769%) FATCA
System Software
1 2 (1.538%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 23 (17.69%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.769%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (10.77%) Oracle
2 8 (6.154%) Sybase
2 8 (6.154%) SAP
2 8 (6.154%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.154%) HP
3 5 (3.846%) Pega
4 4 (3.077%) Capita
5 3 (2.308%) Citrix
5 3 (2.308%) Hyperion
5 3 (2.308%) Business Objects
6 2 (1.538%) Informatica
7 1 (0.769%) IBM
7 1 (0.769%) Cadis
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